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Born the son of a record dealer and raised in north-west London where pirate radio ruled the airwaves during the late 90s, it was near-inevitable that a teenage Adam Dyment would eventually find himself in front of a pair of Technics 1210s.
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Tags: duke dumont, fabric, fabric london, fabriclive, house, soulful, tech house, vocal
Despite the genre’s future-forward and experimental beginnings in the early 90s, drum & bass’ rigid uniformity over the last decade has made it a stifling environment for many producers. For dBridge, with his background as a former member of the drum & bass heavyweight champions Bad Company, the pressure of dancefloor expectations and DJs’ desire [...]
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Gaining both critical acclaim for its catchiness as much as for its atmosphere, the mutant strain of 140 bpm (or thereabouts) bass music currently infiltrating the global airwaves has morphed consistently over its recent life span; cross pollinating its acres of influences into the bundles of sub genres it now houses. It’s become a strain [...]
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Tags: caspa, dub, dubsetep, elevator music, elevatro music vol.1, fabric london, grime, rusko, starkey
Fabric’s half-tonne mix is curated by Martyn – the tracklisting and artwork have been revealed
Martijn Deijkers’ particular strand of bass defies genres or adjectives – to his fans and admirers, it’s known simply as ‘Martyn Music.’ With a sound that became a cornerstone for dubstep in 2009, and a debut album (‘Great Lengths’) that became one of the most stylistically fierce long players the scene has produced to date, [...]
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Tags: dub, dubstep, fabric, fabric london, fabric50, house, martyn, techno
Being a key member of the worshipped Minus family, Magda is used to being propelled into the fast moving, cutting whirr of the hype machine, but she doesn’t really pay it any mind. “I’m not really into this hype thing; I think it’s kind of silly. What really matters is to develop your own ideas [...]
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Tags: deep, deep house, fabric, fabric 49, fabric london, magda, minimal, minus, tech house, techno
With their vibrant club night Kill Em All, the Filthy Dukes have made an individual and indelible impact on the nightlife landscape of London. True pioneers in their own right, Kill Em All first struck a chord at Camden’s unassuming Barfly in 2001, after the pair recognised a thirst amongst a public raised on both [...]
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Tags: electro, electroclash, fabric london, fabrilive, filthy dukes, indie, kill em all
“Are you ready?” is a common question you’ll be asked by 24 year old Sheffield wunderkind Toddla T, and it’s a good question to ask yourself before listening to his FABRICLIVE 47 mix. In amongst his wide vocabulary of homegrown slang and off-the-wall catchphrases, Toddla T (known to his mum as Tom Bell) is a [...]
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Tags: drum & bass, fabric london, fabriclive, hip hop, toddla t
It’s difficult to know where to begin with an artist as complex and multifaceted as Jay Haze. On one hand, his upbringing – desolate beginnings in the processing plant-infested lands of northeast Pennsylvania, surrounded by drug addiction, death, group homes and jail – is a tainted window into the complicated soul within. But on the [...]
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Tags: congo, fabric, fabric london, house, jay haze, tech house, techno
From label boss, hit producer, World Champion DJ, trendsetter, genre-mangling party-starter, to blogger extraordinaire, Alain Macklovitch, best known as A-Trak, embodies the full scope of the 21st Century musician-entrepreneur model. At the mere age of 26, A-Trak has had two distinct phases to his winding 11 year career. Stage one: after winning the World DMCs [...]
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Tags: a-trak, dmc, fabric, fabric london, fabriclive 45, hip hop, house, kanye west
The Detroit-based mastermind stands tall as a daring reminder of how things used to be, how things should be: authentic, exceptional music released on a carefully harvested grassroots label, with no attachment to hype or any incestuous ‘Top Friends’ circles. Distributed solely off his own back, and diligently monitoring every step (even hand-writing notes on [...]
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Tags: bootleg, detroit, detroit techno, fabric, fabric london, omar s, tech house
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